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Core Fellow / Visiting Assistant Professor Environmental Studies

Employer
Boston College
Location
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Salary
competitive
Closing date
Mar 10, 2021

The Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College invites applications for the position of Core Fellow/ Visiting Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies. The appointment for this one-year postdoctoral visiting assistant professorship will be for the 2021-2022 academic year. Salary is competitive, and the position is renewable upon favorable review for up to three years. Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university that strives to integrate research excellence with a foundational commitment to formative liberal arts education. Boston College requires all students to complete a liberal arts Core Curriculum with 15 requirements as the foundation of their undergraduate education. Core Fellows teach signature courses in the Core. Developed for first-year students, interdisciplinary Complex Problem and Enduring Question courses are part of an ongoing renewal of the Core Curriculum. As a Core Fellow, the position includes participation in the Core Fellows Program, a program designed to help new doctorates with their scholarly pursuits as well as become outstanding instructors through pedagogical training focused on education of the whole person.  You can learn more about BC’s Core Curriculum and the Core Fellows Program here: http://www.bc.edu/core.

In one semester, the Core Fellow will help design and teach hands-on, project-based lab sections associated with the Complex Problem course, “Powering America: The Past and Future of Energy, Technology, and the Environment,” co-taught by faculty from the departments of History and Earth & Environmental Sciences. In the other semester, the Core Fellow will teach an Enduring Question course paired with a second course (designed by another Core Fellow) and an elective in their field.

QUALIFICATIONS

Ph.D. in a relevant field (e.g., Environmental Studies or Sciences, Engineering, Geography, and Science & Technology Studies) required and should be conferred between August 1, 2018 and August 1, 2021. 

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

Applications should be submitted electronically to http://apply.interfolio.com/82002.  Deadline: March 1, 2021 with reviews beginning February 15, 2021. Please submit a letter of application, CV, list of three references, a teaching statement and teaching evaluations if available. The teaching statement should address: (1) how the applicant’s area of expertise and approach to education may contribute to an interdisciplinary Complex Problem course on the history and science of energy by designing labs in innovative and imaginative ways; (2) how the applicant’s approach to teaching can link interdisciplinary academic knowledge to the formative education of students as whole persons and active citizens; and (3) potential topics for an Enduring Questions course paired with another course taught by a scholar in the Social Sciences. 

 

Boston College is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected category including disability and protected veteran status. To learn more about how BC supports diversity and inclusion throughout the university please visit the Office for Institutional Diversity at http://www.bc.edu/offices/diversity. Boston College conducts background checks as part of the hiring process.

Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university that strives to integrate research excellence with a foundational commitment to formative liberal arts education.

Boston College conducts background checks as part of the hiring process

 

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